Transcript of "Select bibliography on West Bengal, India"

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Select Bibliography on West BengalAcharya, Poromesh. 1993. Panchayats and Left Politics in West Bengal.Economic and Political Weekly, 28(22), 29 May.Adnan, Shapan. 1990. Annotation of Village Studies in Bangladesh and West Bengal A review of Socio-economic Trends over 1942-88, Dhaka (publisher not known).Arijit Chaudhuri et al, A brief report on district-level estimation by Small Areas Estimation techniques of various characteristics related to West Bengal on certain items with data gathered in the NSS 55th Round (1999-2000) Central and State Level Samples.Bandopadhyay, D. 2000. Land Reform in West Bengal: Remembering Hare Krishna Konar and Benoy Choudhury, Economic and Political Weekly, May 27-June 2.Bandopadhyay, D. 2003. Land Reforms and Agriculture: The West Bengal Experience, Economic and Political Weekly, March 1.Bandopadhyay, Nripen. 1981. Operation Barga and Land Reforms Perspective in West Bengal: A Discussive Review, Economic and Political Weekly, XVI, 25/26, AJ8-42.Bandyopadhya, D. 1993. Fourth General Elections of Panchayats in West Bengal in Mainstream, June 26.Bandyopadhyay, Nripen, 1982. Evaluation of Land Reform Measures in West Bengal: A report. Micro for ILO. CSSS. Kolkata.Banerjee, Abhijit V., Paul Gertler and Maitreesh Ghatak, 2002: Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. No.110, No.2, April. 239-280. 1

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Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Maitreesh Ghatak, 1995. ‘Empowerment and Efficiency: The Economics of Tenancy Reform.’ Mimeograph, Department of Economics, Harvard University.Banerjee, Sonali Chakravarti 2002. Social Background of Panchayat Leaders in West Bengal. Dasgupta and Co. Kolkata.Bardhan, P. and D. Mookherjee, 2004. Poverty Alleviation Efforts of West Bengal Panchayats, in EPW, February 28, 2004.Bardhan, P. and Dilip Mookerjee. 2006. Land Reform, Decentralised Governance and Rural Development in West Bengal, http://scid.stanford.edu/events/PanAsia/Mookerjee-Bardhan.pdfBardhan, Pranab and Mukherjee, Dilip. 2006. ‘Pro-poor Targeting and Accountability of Local governments in West Bengal’ in Journal of Development Economics, 79 (2006). 303-327.Barman, Subhash. 2004. Study of the Knowledge, Attitude and Participation of Elected Panchayat Members on Health and Family Welfare Programmes in West Bengal. Indian Statistical Institute. Kolkata.Baruah, Sanijb. 1990. The end of the road in Land Reform: Lamits to Redistribution in West Bengal in EPW. Vol. XXXI. No. 4.Basu A.K. State Panchayat Relations in West Bengal in Quarterly Journal of the Local Self Government Institute, Vol. 51. No. 4. April-June 1981.Basu, Jyoti, 1989. Panchayati Raj – Two Alternative Approaches in Yojana, Vol. 33. Nos-1 & 2, January 26.Basu, Kalipada, 1989. West Bengal Economy: Past, Present and Future. Firma KLM. Kolkata. 2

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Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram.Charvak, 2004. Decentralisation in West Bengal. Background paper to Human Development Report, Government of West Bengal.Chatterjee, Biswajit and Dilip Kumar Ghosh. 2001. In Search of District Development Index, State Institute of Panchayats and Rural Development, Kalyani, West Bengal.Chatterjee, Partha. 1997. The Present History of West Bengal. New Delhi. Oxford University Press.Chatterjee, S.N. 1921. Poverty, Inequality and Circulation: A micro-level study of Birbhum, West Bengal, Mittal. New Delhi.Chattopadhyay, 1964. G. Ranjana: A village in West Bengal, Bookland, Calcutta.Chattopadhyay, Basudev and Pranotosh Sen. 1992. ‘Who controls rural West Bengal? A Case Study of Socio-Economic Background of Gram Panchayat Members of Murshidabad district’ in Socialist Perspective, Vol.19. No. 4, March.Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra, and V. Nagi Reddy, 2002. The status of elementary and technical education in West Bengal, Background Paper submitted for West Bengal State Development Report and Perspective 2007-08, Kolkata: May.Chattopadhyay, S.N. Historical Context of Political Change in Rural West Bengal : A study of Seven Villages in Bardhaman. In EPW. Vol. XXVII. No. 13.Chaudhuri, Sushil. 1993. The Left Front in West Bengal: The Challenge of an Alternative Experience. Ganashakti. Kolkata. 6

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